Floating Quotes
There were big geysers coming up where the shells were landing and there were bodies floating, face down, face up.
I am nothing. I’m like someone who’s been thrown into the ocean at night, floating all alone. I reach out, but no one is there. I call out, but no one answers. I have no connection to anything.
One must explore deep and believe the incredible to find the new particles of truth floating in an ocean of insignificance.
There's an old maxim that says, 'Things that work persist,' which is why there's still Cobol floating around.
From that day on it was as if Ren freed me from gravity. I was floating in the sky. Higher. Higher. Higher.
Summer in the deep South is not only a season, a climate, it's a dimension. Floating in it, one must be either proud or submerged.
And it occurs to me that if I were aboard a rowboat floating in the middle of all the beer I've drunk in a lifetime, I'd never be able to see the shore.
The plague of racism is insidious, entering into our minds as smoothly and quietly and invisibly as floating airborne microbes enter into our bodies to find lifelong purchase in our bloodstreams.
See, Heaven is not someplace on a disc in the sky floating around, it's right here amongst us.
our love for the dead, like a floating iceberg, can only be measured by the depths of our resentments.
It's easy to sleep floating around - it's very comfortable. But you have to be careful that you don't float into somebody or something!
I used to sit in class and listen to the terms come floating down the room like paper airplanes.
If you have something floating in your drink, then you know you're ready. Seriously, what's in my drink? Aliens. Still gonna drink it.
But I bring it up to let you know that this is the way I feel right now. Like Pluto and Jupiter are aligned with the earth and I'm floating.
A lot of Pacific island nations are sinking below sea level; they could easily transition slowly into becoming floating nations.
Learn your instrument. Be honest. Don't do anything phony. There is so much crap floating around. There is plenty of room for a bit of honest writing.
It's amazing to find that so many people, who I thought really knew me, could have thought that 'Sunset Boulevard' was autobiographical. I've got nobody floating in my swimming pool.
Through the sharp air a flaky torrent flies, Mocks the slow sight, and hides the gloomy skies; The fleecy clouds their chilly bosoms bare, And shed their substance on the floating air.
The floating vapour is just as true an illustration of the law of gravity as the falling avalanche.
Indie world won't have me, and mainstream world treats me like an alien, but here I am still floating between these two worlds.
He was consious of a thousand odours floating in the air, each one connected with a thousand thoughts, and hopes, and joys, and cares, long, long, forgotten.
I buy magazines. I'm not floating around in my own universe. I'm interested in everything.
When I'm writing I've been playing something for a couple of hours and I'm almost in a trance. At two or three in the morning you can actually see bits inspiration floating about and grab them.
I slept just floating in the middle of the flight deck, the upper deck of the space shuttle.
I'd say that golf is about 75% mental. If your state of mind gets out of kilter, you're worse off than a tomcat floating on a log.
We are bits of energy floating about in various guises, and when we die we rejoin the big cosmic soup of the universe.
They said you can't go to the moon. They said you can't put cheese inside a pizza crust, but NASA did it. They had to, because the cheese kept floating off in space.
When on the breath of Autumn's breeze, From pastures dry and brown, Goes floating, like an idle thought, The fair, white thistle-down; O, then what joy to walk at will, Upon the golden harvest-hill!
Climbing K2 or floating the Grand Canyon in an inner tube; there are some things one would rather have done than do.
What ideal, immutable Platonic cloud could equal the beauty and perfection of any ordinary everyday cloud floating over, say, Tuba City, Arizona, on a hot day in June?
There's a lot of bad isms floating around this world, but one of the worst is commercialism.
When you freefall for 7,000 feet it doesn't feel like you're falling: it feels like you're floating, a bit like scuba diving.
There's no doubt that after you eat a lot of garlic, you just kind of feel like you are floating, you feel ultra-confident, you feel capable of going out and whipping your weight in wild cats.
The one close to me now; even my own body--these too will soon become clouds, floating in different directions.
I won't be able to do what I'm doing forever. There aren't that many scripts floating around for fifty-year-old chicks.
I felt like time was a great sea, and I was floating on the back of a turtle, and no sails broke the horizon.
When you have a time of crisis what happens depends on what ideas are floating around, and what ideas have been developed, and thought through, and are made effective.
I feel like I'm playing chess underwater. The pieces keep floating away. I don't know where things are. I can't figure out tomorrow.
Maybe Fate isn't the pond you swim in but the fisherman floating on top of it, letting you run the line wild until you are weary enough to be reeled back in.
